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of the annex pages of www.understandfrance.org, the foremost
site on Franco-American intercultural differences. It contains
documents, facts and figures illustrating the content of some
of its pages.

Facts
& figures

This page contains
Facts and Figures about France and the French. Some are significant,
other less so....

Intercultural management : with questionnaires for more than 100,000 employees
of IBM, all over the world, Geert Hofstede (1991, 2002) has identified
5 dimensions to assess intercultural management differences (see
more details).
Here are the numbers (quoted by R.Hill)
:

Individualism vs Collectivism

Power Distance

Uncertainty Avoidance

Masculinity vs Feminity

Long Term vs Short Term

Austria

55

11

70

79

Belgium

75

65

94

54

Denmark

74

18

23

16

Finland

63

33

59

26

France

71

68

86

43

39

Germany

67

35

65

66

Greece

35

60

112

57

Ireland

70

28

35

68

Italy

76

50

75

70

Netherlands

80

38

53

14

Norway

69

31

50

8

Portugal

27

63

104

31

Spain

51

57

86

42

Sweden

71

31

29

5

Switzerland

68

34

58

70

United Kingdom

89

35

35

66

USA

91

40

46

62

29

Educational
backgroundof the 349 members of the executives boards of
the 40 largest French companies (listed in the CAC40 Index) in
2007(Source
: Le Figaro March 25, 2008) :